Saturday, September 12, 2015
Hero
Sing
The Old Song
Bollywood’s nepotism dictates that every star
kid who is halfway good looking (the rest can be ‘fixed’) be given a bash a
stardom. The grooming probably means some instant acting lessons and much more
time spent in the gym and tattoo parlour to get a designer body. That done, the
star offspring can be unleashed on to the public, already hit on the head with
the high-powered publicity. (It doesn’t
seem to matter that this kind of training and styling means that they end up looking
just like everybody else.)
Sooraj Pancholi and Athiya Shetty have that
little extra push because the industry’s current godfather or ‘Bhai’ Salman
Khan has co-produced Hero (with Subhash Ghai, maker of the original Ding dong,
O baby sing a song romantic adventure) and has been personally promoting the
new fledglings more than their own parents possibly could.
Anyway, the story is the the same, villain
Pasha’s (Aditya Pancholi) henchman Sooraj
pretends to be a cop and kidnaps the IG’s (Tigmanshu Dhulia) daughter
Radha. The episode’s a picnic for her,
since she does not guess that she has been abducted, and the two complicate
Pasha’s plot by falling in love.
The original wasn’t such a classic either, but Ghai managed some
of his own flourishes like picking tuneful songs and picturising them with
panache. Nikhil Advani brings nothing of
his own to the table. This Hero could
have been directed by a bot. And if it
works, it will be because today’s audiences are also mainly bots.
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